Ammar al-Baluchi

Ali Abdul Aziz Ali (born 1977) is a Kuwaiti-Pakistani member of Al-Qaeda and one of its financiers. He is known to have sent money to Marwan al-Shehhi, one of the 9/11 Hijackers, and was captured with 150 kilograms of explosives in his house. After unsuccessful interrogation, he was tricked into revealing the importance of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, leading to the death of Osama bin Laden.

Biography
Ali Abdul Aziz Ali was born in Kuwait and was a nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a known high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda. He worked as one of the workers at his uncle's honey company, and later became a computer expert, learning fluent English. However, he inadvertently worked for Al-Qaeda by sending money to certain people in the United Arab Emirates, including future 9/11 hijacker Marwan al-Shehhi.

After 9/11, Ali took on the name "Amar al-Baluchi", a kunya (war name), and chose to fight to protect his turf rather than run. He and Hamza Rabia, Khabab al-Masri, and Abu Ahmed wanted to kill Americans, and they fought against the US invasion in 2001 before he returned to Peshawar. In 2003 he was captured by the CIA, and interrogated in a Black Site in an unspecified location.

While in prison, Al-Baluchi was interrogated, but did not crack. In 2004, after the 2004 Khobar massacre, the CIA decided to trick him into revealing more information. Due to being kept awake for 96 hours (four days), al-Baluchi had short-term memory loss, and the CIA agents that interrogated him told him that he had revealed the names of some of his comrades and saved several innocent lives. Al-Baluchi, not recalling the past day, told them about his fighting in Afghanistan with his accomplices and also informed them about Abu Ahmed, and CIA analyst Maya Lambert took it upon herself to research the man.

In 2006, Ammar was sent to Guantanamo Bay, where he is currently imprisoned.